Clarence Arrasmith Cira 1945. Clarence came to Fillmore in 1911 was the first City Manager for Fillmore in 1918.

Happy Hour Program February 5, 1932.
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Covers of the Annual Reports 1953 - 1954.
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Courtesy Fillmore Historical Museum

We say Fillmore was founded in 1887 when the railroad came through, but it was not an actual town until 1914 when it was incorporated. Incorporation was not an assured event. There was strong opposition, mainly on the basis that creating a city would put another layer of taxes on the locals. On the other side was the argument that taxes currently being paid weren’t coming back to the local residents but were being spent elsewhere in the county. Streets were not paved, and the only paved sidewalks were those put in by the adjacent business owner. In August of 1914 the election was held with the vote split 208 for incorporation and 193 against. Fillmore became the newest city in Ventura County.

In the same election George Tighe, the first station master and a store owner, was elected mayor and Clarence Arrasmith was elected city clerk. Besides Tighe on the “board of trustees”, forerunner to the city council, were Bowman Merrill, druggist; E. O. Goodenough, merchant; E. A. Pyle, “financier”; and S. H. Mosher, hardware merchant. At the first trustee meeting two additional officials were appointed – John Galvin as city attorney and Jack Casner, city marshal, both would receive the salary of $25 per month.

Two of the new city officials would serve Fillmore into the second half of the twentieth century – Clarence Arrasmith and John Galvin.

Clarence Arrasmith was born in Newport, Indiana, in 1873. While in Indiana he owned two newspapers. After his marriage to Mary Grosjean in 1903 he moved to Illinois. He came to Fillmore in 1911 and served as assistant post-master to Richard Stephens.

In 1918, the town moved to the “City Manager” form of government that we still have. Arrasmith was hired as the first city manager for Fillmore. He would hold the position until his death in 1954.

Clarence Arrasmith was particularly known for his ability to communicate complex issues to the general public. Beginning in 1936, he wrote a weekly column in the Fillmore Herald called, “Over the Back Fence.” Through this column he would explain to the citizens of Fillmore why their water bill was what it was, why certain streets couldn’t be paved at the present time and what new ordinances meant.

The City’s Annual Reports during Clarence Arrasmith’s time as City Manager were actually fun to read. His final report for 1954 was “written” by one “Josiah Tuttle”, late of Vermont, and illustrated by Lawrence Hinckley. It was subtitled “Being a Fair-to-Middlin’ Report about City Doings at Fillmore, California, for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1954. Printed and Published by the City of Fillmore, California (but not Guaranteed).” Under the heading “Street Improvements”, “Josiah” wrote:
“Street improvements were on the program this year – but somehow or another they mostly got sidetracked – but there is a good chance that some of them will be done up in the paper sack this coming year – provided the proposed sewer project doesn’t get too much in the way”.

No bureaucratic jargon here.

Like the rest of the United States, the Great Depression had an impact on Fillmore. To lift people’s spirits, Arrasmith organized weekly evening “Happy Hours”. These were programs which included singing, instrumental music, readings and skits. One in early April 1932 was considered by the local paper to have been a “smashing success.” The program opened with the Community Orchestra (Arrasmith led and played the cello) playing “The Bridal Rose”. This was followed by Eddie Perkins, Jr., “one of the city’s most talented youngsters” doing some snappy novelty dances, accompanied by his mother on the piano. A community sing-along was then led by Eddie Perkins, Sr.. Mary Galvin, accompanied by her sister Katherine, sang several songs. This was then followed by Fergus Fairbanks giving a short, but interesting resumé on George Washington. More singing, and the program was closed with the Star-Spangled Banner. One of the highlights of the evening was the Fillmore Fire Department presenting an “interesting and novel number called ‘Paying a Bet’.”

On the night of July 20, 1954, Clarence Arrasmith felt unwell. A doctor was summoned (this was still in the days of house calls), but Arrasmith died of a heart attack that night. At the time of his death, he was believed to have been the longest serving city manager in the State. His many musical instruments were donated to the Fillmore High School Music Department. He was survived by his wife Mary, daughter Mildred and son, Donald.

Christine Schieferle, Fillmore Unified School District Superintendent

September 23, 2021

This is an exciting week for Fillmore Unified School District. We began Homecoming week on Friday September 17, with a Flashes Football win against Oak Park. Our students played great, demonstrated positive sportsmanship, and our community came out and cheered on our team. Our new Flashes Spirit Tunnel made its debut and contributed to the exciting atmosphere. We thank the Fillmore Athletic Boosters Club for their generosity! On Saturday, September 18, FHS hosted a well-attended, outdoor Homecoming Dance in the West Wing. On Sunday, Trustee Morris and I had the pleasure of supervising Float Building, and we all look forward to seeing the floats this evening in the Blue and White Parade starting at 6:00 p.m. Our amazing Fillmore High Alumni Association has a great evening planned to honor and celebrate Flashes pride and tradition. We will wrap up the week on Friday, hosting Santa Maria High School for our 2021 Homecoming Football Game. These traditions are one of the many reasons why we are proud to live in Fillmore and have our students attend FUSD schools!

On Monday, September 20, Trustees and District Staff had the opportunity to attend the Agriculture Administrator’s night at Otto and Sons. I would like to thank The Fillmore High Ag. Department for coordinating a beautiful evening for the Fillmore, Santa Paula, Ventura, and Carpentaria Agriculture Career Technical Education (CTE) programs.

We’re close to the finish line for the CTE Building construction. Landscaping installation is complete, and they have checked all the irrigation lines. There are 2 final pieces of equipment will be arriving by Friday. Staff is being trained to operate the equipment. We have a Haas Mini Mill, Rotary lifts and Hunter equipment training scheduled. They are also finalizing the date for the plasma table training. We anticipate that the students will be touring the new facilities and trained on procedures and starting to train on the equipment prior to fall break and will fully move into the building after fall break. Finally, Desks are in place, the new building is getting its final clean-up and waiting for students to arrive.

On Friday, September 17, all schools celebrated Constitution Day by participating in a variety of activities from AP Government Students reciting the preamble, discussions, and lessons on the significance of the preamble and constitution. Our teachers planned engaging lessons, and students had fun while learning.

Today is the 26th day of school and we will continue to celebrate our students back in school full time. Fillmore Middle School and Fillmore High are preparing mid-quarter progress reports and will mail home to families by the end of the week. We are completing our beginning of the year testing in English Language Arts and Math and have started reading intervention at 3 of our elementary schools. We are still recruiting for intervention teachers at Piru School.

I’d like to thank our staff for their dedication to our students and for the time they are taking to implement the many new health requirements and public health mandates. I would also like to thank our families for their continued support and patience as we work through this school year prioritizing student and staff safety, teaching and learning, and social and emotional wellness. We ask that you please continue to prescreen your children each day and keep them home if they have any COVID Symptoms. Working together, giving one another grace, and putting our students first will make this a great school year. Thank you!

Fillmore City Council Member Ari Larson

Fillmore lost a special person on Friday, September 17th Fillmore’s Ari Larson passed away suddenly in her sleep. In honor of Ari there will be a vigil, Mass and reception in the month of October, dates times & locations as follows: Vigil – Friday, October 29th, 10am – 9pm at Perez Family Funeral Home, 600 Central Ave., Fillmore, Ca. Rosary begins
at 6:30pm. Mass – Saturday, October 39th, 10am – 11am at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 23225 Lyons Ave., Santa Clarita, Ca. Reception – Saturday, October 30th, 12pm at Fillmore/Piru Veterans Memorial Building, 511 2nd St., Fillmore, Ca.

A Rainy Day with the Fillmore Billiard Parlor in the background in 1926.
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World Series Score Card at the Pool Hall in 1944.
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Centro de Salud circa 1983 in the former Pool Hall Building.
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Chili Franklins Pool Hall circa 1910.
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Earliest photo of a pool hall in Fillmore. One of the three one story buildings in the center.
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Jims Pool Hall circa 1940.
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Centro De Salud after the 1994 Earthquake.
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Courtesy Fillmore History Museum

Many years ago, long before equal rights for women, there was definite discrimination nationwide over “Pool Halls”. I don’t think that the girls or women really cared then that they were not allowed to spend their 5 cents for a coke in the Pool Hall. After all there were plenty of other places where cokes, candy and ice cream sodas were available.

Fillmore had four documented Pool Halls over the years.(We should first acknowledge that what we all called Pool Halls were at the timeand, in Fillmore, forever, consistently named Billiard Parlors and later Amusement Parlors. If you are familiar with the musical “The Music Man” you will recall that the major issue in the plot was the arrival of a pool table at the local Billiard Parlor.) In Fillmore, the first Pool Hall was built in the late 1880s or early 1890s. It was one of three buildings built shortly after the arrival of the railroad and the location where a broken oil lamp combined with an east wind burned most of the businesses on Main St. in the 1903 fire. Another Pool Hall was also a Public Bath house and was located on Santa Clara St. between Central Ave. and Palm St. One of the best documented Pool Halls was owned by Charles Cleveland “Chili” Franklin in 1910 and located at 340 Central just north of the theater. The sign above the entry said “Oasis, Sodas, Lunches”. Upstairs was the Odd Fellows Hall. In the 1920s a roller rink was installed upstairs where the Odd Fellows Hall had been located. According to Mose Fine, the rink was a popular spot for hockey games with locals and visiting teams from Santa Paula. It was also a popular place for weekly dances, but by the 1930s it was gone. This building became Briggs Hardware. The rink and dance hall were damaged during the Sylmar Earthquake in 1971 when a 70 foot chunk of the upstairs wall fell onto the roof and into the interior of Martha’s clothing store. The second floor was totally removed and reroofed as a one story building. The wooden dance and roller rink floor still remain under the reconstructed roof giving it a double ceiling.

The 1920s saw another pool hall in operation. Jim Ipswitch purchased the business, then known as the Fillmore Billiard Parlor, in 1923.It was located on the west side of Central Ave. in a building built in 1915 and originally used as an auto electric and parts store. This was the Pool Hall referenced in the story about the Bunion Race several weeks ago. The runner, “Whitie” Fitzsimmons, who won the race, couldn’t collect first prize but Jim took up a collection among the customers in the Pool Hall and provided candy, cokes, and milk shakes for him for the next three or four months. (This story is to be found in Mose Fine’s book.)

In 1940, Jack Ipswitch with a partner a Mr. Burrell purchased the pool hall from his dad, Jim. At about this time the Billiard Parlor name was changed to Amusement Parlor but it was still a pool hall.

According to Elaine McMaster Ipswitch, “cars would line up Friday and Saturday nights, and the men would come in and pick up shakes, malts, cokes and sundaes and deliver them to the women waiting in the cars while the men played pool. During the school lunch hour, they would have 50 malt containers full of ice cream and milk, waiting to be mixed with a chosen flavor and machine stirred., The flavors were vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, cherry, pineapple.” These were the days when the high school had an open campus. English teacher, Gladys Hackbarth, once told Ron Ipswitch “that the Fillmore High School teachers approved of the “Fillmore Boys going into the Pool Hall, as no alcohol was served and Jim would kick anyone out the cussed.”

“During the World Series a plywood board was set up with painted lines indicating bases and a scoreboard with runs, hits, strikes and balls and the score, as received by the radio. There were penny boards with 25 punch outs, punched out with a match stick. Youcould buy 1 to 25 and might win a pack of cigarettes.”

“Near the front of the Pool Hall was a potbellied stove with a big brass ring around it that always glowed red during the winter. Ranchers would supply the wood. On either side of the Pool Hall were two small businesses, a Barber Shop owned by George Palmer and a Shoe Repair Shop owned by “Doc” Maxwell.”

“In 1953, Jack sold the Pool Hall to Lewis Steelsmith who also owned a Pool Hall in Santa Paula.“ Steelsmith sold eventually to Kenny Rogers. And eventually it was owned by Dan Bowlin.

While girls were never welcomed into the Pool Hall, they often went into George Palmers’ barber shop where a “Dutch” door opened into the Pool Hall. From that opening they could order cokes or sodas without setting foot in the “forbidden” zone.

In 1983 Kenny Roger sold the building to El Centro de Salud Familiar. The 1994 Northridge Earthquake brought the end to the story when the building was badly damaged and had to be demolished.

Much of our information for this story was supplied by Ron and Elaine Ipswitch. As with much of our local history we are dependent on information from present and past residents. If you have stories to tell us, give us a call or an email and let us know. We would love to hear from you. Our email is Fillmore.museum@gmail.com

Fillmore City Council Member Ari Larson.

FILLMORE, CA – It is with sorrow that the City of Fillmore announces that Council Member Ari Larson passed away suddenly on September 17th, 2021. Our entire community mourns Ari’s loss. She was a woman who loved her family and saw the Fillmore community as an extension of that family. Ari was a longtime Fillmore Resident and was very active in the community. She was committed to numerous charitable efforts.

Ari was active in many local and county-wide organizations. Her ties with the community of Fillmore and County of Ventura were like no other. Ari served on numerous boards including but not limited to: the Fillmore City Council, Soroptimist International of Fillmore, Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clara Valley, Heritage Tourism Bureau, Santa Clara Valley Hospice, Rotary Club of Fillmore, Member of Civic Pride, Girls Scouts of Heritage Valley, Relay for Life of Heritage Valley, Ventura County Garden Club, and many others.

Elected in 2020, Ari quickly became a respected voice on the City Council. She served as the City’s representative on the Ventura County Area Agency on Aging and the Citizen's Advisory Committee and the Ventura Council of Governments. She was also named Fillmore’s 2019 Citizen of the Year. Despite her short time on Council, Ari made an impact on the community. Her connections to the community, her straight-forward manner, and her thoughtful approach earned her the respect of staff, elected officials, and the public. “We are devasted and in shock. Today we lost a great soul. Ari was loved by the entire community of Fillmore. She impacted many citizens lives and will be greatly missed,” said Mayor Mark Austin.

City Manager, David W. Rowlands expressed “our entire community mourns Ari’s loss. She was a wonderful person and an exemplary citizen; she will be greatly missed by everyone who admired her honesty and integrity.”

On behalf of Fillmore’s City Council and staff, our thoughts and prayers are with Ari’s family and many friends. Our deepest sympathies go out to them.

No information is yet available about a memorial service.

Ventura County Department of Public Health

Ventura County Public Health has extended the indoor mask order, requiring all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, to wear face coverings when indoors in public settings, with limited exceptions. The order will continue to be in effect until October 19, 2021 or until it is extended, rescinded, superseded, or amended by the Health Officer. “Our current case rate of 19.3 is still considered widespread community transmission by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the California Department of Public Health,” said Public Health Officer Doctor Robert Levin. “We need to see a continued decrease in the case rate and hospitalizations before safely lifting indoor masking requirements to help prevent future surges.”

The order directs that face coverings must be worn over the mouth and nose – regardless of vaccination status – in all indoor public settings, venues, gatherings, and workplaces, including but not limited to offices, retail stores, restaurants and bars, theaters, family entertainment centers, conference and event centers, and government offices serving the public.

Individuals, businesses, venue operators, hosts, and others responsible for the operation of indoor public settings must:
• Require all patrons to wear face coverings for all indoor settings, regardless of their vaccination status; and
• Post clearly visible and easy-to-read signage at all entry points for indoor settings to communicate the masking requirements to all patrons. Signage is provided by Ventura County Public Health at www.vcrecovers.org.

This health order aims to reduce community transmission of COVID-19. Health officials are concerned by the substantial levels of increased community transmission, especially among unvaccinated people. In part, this is due to the widespread COVID-19 Delta variant, which is substantially more transmissible than previous forms of the virus. Recent information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also indicates that even fully vaccinated individuals can in some cases spread the Delta variant to others, and so indoor use of face coverings provides an important added layer of protection.

More information about COVID-19 available at: www.venturacountyrecovers.org

Fillmore High School graduates Randal Kamradt, Andrew Reilley, and Nicholas Medina are set to premiere their exciting new film The Monsters Without this October at the prestigious Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. An action-packed adventure through the Philippines featuring terrifying and amazing creatures from Filipino Mythology, The Monsters Without is the latest film from writer/director Kamradt (Faraway). The film features an international cast led by Jake Macapagal (Metro Manila, Watch List) including Reilley in a supporting role as Richard, an inventor, and Medina as voice of the monstrous villain Nameless.

The story is about a scrappy international team of scientists and mercenaries called P.H.A.S.E. who resolve to keep man and monster-kind safe.

Kamradt and Reilley traveled with a small team to the Philippines in 2017 and shot the film on location for 28 days. The complex shoot included filming in the beautiful Hindang Caves, working with dozens of extras, and extensive monster make-up. Reilley played multiple roles, not only appearing as Richard but also undergoing a complete make-up transformation to appear as The Kafir, a legendary creature. Once filming was completed, Medina contributed his vocal performance as the main villain.

A lengthy post-production process followed, as Kamradt created over 100 visual effects shots for the film. This included adding new computer-generated creatures and augmenting many of the real locations with otherworldly additions. During post-production, Kamradt also became Fillmore High School and Middle School's Video Production teacher, hoping to share his expertise with students and contribute to the town that raised him.

The Monsters Without is a thrilling love letter to genre cinema and the beautiful Philippines islands. The film will premiere on October 1st, 2021 at the Regal LA Live theater as part of the 37th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. For more information visit http://www.themonsterswithout.com

Frank Erskine circa 1906. Frank came to Fillmore from Vermont in 1913 and later formed the Fillmore Citrus Protective District. Photos Courtesy Fillmore Historical Museum. Frank Erskine c 1965 Caricature of Fillmore Herald editor Hamilton Riggs at the Artists' Barn Above is a newspaper article regarding Fillmore Citrus Association Mexican Band was set to perform on December 11th, 1931 via radio performance. This band was formed back in 1925 along with the Fillmore American Band which both had 20 musicians. Photo Courtesy Fillmore Historical Museum More photos online at www.fillmoregazette.com Tray made by Frank Erskine in the Museum Collections
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Newspaper article about Fillmore Citrus Association Mexican Band set to perform on December 11th, 1931 via radio performance. This band was formed in 1925 along with the Fillmore American Band which both had 20 musicians.
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Tray made by Frank Erskine in the Museum Collections.
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Frank Erskine circa 1965.
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Courtesy Fillmore Historical Museum

You don’t have to serve as mayor or be elected to the city council to have an impact on your community. That’s true today and was true one hundred years ago. In 1913 a young man from Vermont came to Fillmore and was a force for good in the town. His name was Frank Erskine.

Frank was born in Williamstown, Vermont in 1879. His parents were farmers, though as Frank would later say, “Farms in Vermont are mostly rocks.” He had five siblings, four of whom died before Frank was 16 years old. His father, Henry Erskine, died when Frank was twenty. His mother, Jane, sold the farm and with his portion of the proceeds, Frank entered collage attending Albany Business College where he eventually taught. He developed one of the first high school business courses that was taught in New York state.

While in Albany, he married Miss Susan Benedict from his hometown. It was her brother-in-law, OrlowGriffen, who suggested Frank come to California to take a position with a fruit growers’ association in Whittier. He and his wife, Susan, made the move to California. In 1913, Frank was told about a struggling fruit growers’ association in a place called Fillmore and decided to make the move to Ventura County.

Erskine was to say that for the first years he battled competition and bugs with red and purple scale threatening the local citrus crops. He and David Felsenthal were instrumental in forming the Fillmore Citrus Protective District and eventually the Fillmore Insectary which focused on biological control of pests.

He left the Citrus Association in 1929 at age 50. Not able to sit idle, he was one of the founding directors of Ramona Savings and Loan and remained a director for 38 years, and vice-president for thirty-six. The purpose of Ramona was to help local families buy homes – even during the Great Depression. One advertisement Frank wrote read, “We will pay withdrawals on demand. We could use additional funds to lend.” The ad was effective because within seven days business transactions doubled.Frank retired from Ramona Savings and Loan in 1966.

Frank had played the cornet in Vermont at churches and other venues. A story has been told that when Frank Erskine first got off the train in Fillmore, he was carrying a cornet case. The first person to see him was C. A. Harmonson (the initials stood for Columbus Arizona) who quickly recruited him to play with the band his family participated in (The Harmonson Rood Orchestra).

One of the things Frank Erskine is most remembered for is his association with local bands. One band he was in would play concerts on Saturday nights on the site of the Masonic Building under the pepper tree. Others in the group included Al Haase, Ken Howard, Lawrence and Sidney Peyton, Clarence Arrasmith, Frank Middlesworth and Bobby Stiles.

His motto, ‘money spent for music is a sound investment” was put to the test. By 1925, he had formed two bands, the Fillmore American Band and the Fillmore Citrus Association Mexican band, each of about twenty musicians.Both bands wore red bow ties with white pants and shirts with suit jackets.The Mexican band “was first laughed at and then complimented when it won top prize at the county contest called the “Esteidfod’ that we used to have in Oxnard,” he said in an interview in 1970.

An advertising card for the bands read, “Fillmore American Band and the Fillmore Citrus Association Mexican Band can provide instrumentation in any number of men from 16 to 50 for music for any occasion.” They were soon in big demand.

Erskine particularly enjoyed combining the two bands. The groups frequently performed together as was noted in a Fillmore Herald article in a June 9, 1927,talking about a series of concerts the combined band would be giving in “front of the old High School.” The Mexican band, led by Manuel Lucero, performed a two-hour broadcast on Radio KMPC in 1931. Lucero also composed a piece called “The Erskine March.”Unfortunately, only the 1st Cornet part has survived but it is both challenging and tuneful. The members of the band also combined their efforts to purchase a cornet for Mr. Erskine – it is on display in the Museum.

He was very active in the Rotary serving as president for the 1937-1938 term.Besides being a musician, he was also an artist, with his caricatures rivaling those of Lawrence Hinckley’s. For the March, 1937 Rotary Ladies’ Night he did an entire pamphlet of “Candid Camera Counterfeits of Prominent Phillmore Personages.” Each Rotary member was lampooned with his own special illustration.

In retirement he took up marquetry, carefully creating designs on trays and other items from small pieces of wood. We have several examples of his detailed work in the Museum collection.

Perhaps one of the least known of his activities was being Santa Claus to Fillmore’s children. Widowed three times, he had no children of his own. For twenty years (probably with the collusion of fellow Rotarian and Postmaster J K L Schwartz) he answered the children’s letters to Santa Claus. He was a friendly, but practical Santa. When a chimney-less child expressed concern that Santa would not visit him, Santa replied, “I dislike chimneys – all that soot in a place too narrow for me. I come in the front door like any other welcome guest.” To a child with an extensive wish list, “If I brought you all that stuff this year, you’d have nothing for next year. You divide that list up and expect to find maybe one-fourth of it, after I call on you this year.”

Frank Erskine died in 1978 having just turned 99 years old. He was the last of his family and left no survivors, but did leave a large legacy to the community.

On Tuesday, September 14th at Saint Francis Catholic Church, members of the community lined up outside the polling station to vote in the 2021 Gubernatorial Recall Election. As for results, California voted NO on recalling California Governor Gavin Newsom who received 63.9% of the votes. For information visit https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/
2021/09/14/us/elections/results-california-recall.html

The Dye Scholarship Foundation (DSF) raised over $10,000 at its Labor Day Cornhole Tournament and Games event. The cornhole tournament was run by Jerry Lopez and his crew from Bag Habits of Simi Valley. The first place team in the hotly contested tournament were Lucio Pertile and Dustin Parkins from Ventura. Second and Third place went to the teams from Bakersfield, Tyler Valverde and Andrea Baca, and from Simi Valley, Samantha Ohmie and Art Newcomb.

Community volunteer groups included the Ventura County Search and Rescue Team 1 from Fillmore who brought out their Command Post for tours and demos, and Girl Scout Troop 65105 from Santa Paula, who provided games and activities for the younger kids. Pepsico was a major sponsor, donating 650 beverages to the event, and sponsoring their team, Chris Cartee and David Gomez as tournament players. The Ventura County Deputy Sheriff's Association and the Ventura Sheriff's Foundation both provided team sponsorships. Local businesses donated gift certificates which were raffled off, or used as prizes, including Lazy Dog, Lure, Wood Ranch, Islands, Target, Vons, Panera, Presto Pasta and Smart & Final. If you missed it, don't worry, as we are already planning for next year, and the good news is you have a whole year to practice your cornhole skills!

The DSF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit providing scholarships to Ventura County students pursuing vocational career education. 100% of all donations are awarded to recipients with no administrative fees withheld.

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